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I'll give you Johnny for #1 if only because Sarah Shahi is at #2. God must have burned his fingers when he made her.

Wait Wait Wait. Kyra Sedgewick? She looks like Amy Sedaris on Strangers With Candy. Is it because she's sassy? I'd put the chica from the new Castle show on here before Jerri Blank.

She looks like Amy Sedaris on Strangers With Candy.

Yeah, she's got that Julia Roberts mouth. Her popcorn eating in "Singles" still haunts me.

Would Michelle Forbes as M.E. Cox on "Homicide" count? I'll accept her exclusion if her job doesn't count, but not if her beauty doesn't.

Dear GOD. She always seems like the kind of woman that likes me though I can't tell why, but we're somehow complementary.

If Slim's around he'll show up in a second to bag on Ms. Hargitay but I still approve and still want her to play a Darwyn Cooke-style Catwoman. Golly oh gee do I want her too.

I was gonna add Poppy Montgomery from Without a Trace, but, alas, she plays a Federal agent and not a cop.

I second the love for Elisabeth Röhm. Assistant DA in Law and Order, but a cop in Angel.

No Jimmy McNulty? For shame!

No Bunk?

Previously missed point to add: Mitzi Kapture was even on Baywatch Hawaii!

Keep in mind this is a list of cops, so a large part of the Law & Order hot peoples can't be included.

Let's have a big orgy and invite all the ADA's from all the Law & Order series. And yes I'm counting Courtney B. Vance.

I have a thing for Christoper Meloni, specially after his guest stint on Scrubs.

It's not a PUPPET! It's a COLLECTIBLE!

Damien Lewis? Rowles wants to hump Rorschach.

Awwww, ginger hate? Come on now.

My brother loves Sarah Shahi since she went from being that "hot lesbian on the L Word" to the "hot cop on Life."

You mean she had to leave the show first? I can understand that. College was enough of a "pretty girls who ain't interested" show for me, so watching "The L Word" would probably just gloomily remind me of my life too much rather than being titillating. My penchant for short hair doesn't help my odds either.

Oh and good call on "Silk Stalkings". I do have a soft spot for that late night syndicated era.

I'm with Optimus on this one. I'm sure Kyra Sedgewick is a nice lady and all, but not a bit attractive. In fact, I would place her squarely in the homely category.

I would add, in Kyra's place, Michelle Rodriguez in LOST. Ana Lucia - freakin' HOT, NUTS, and kind of DEAD, but HOT. Dirty and scary, but HOT!

What about Mario Lopez on Pacific Blue?

William Shatner in Hooker?

Eric Estrada in C.H.i.P.s?

Or the guy who played Enos on The Dukes of Hazzard?

Heather Locklear in T.J. Hooker?

oh please, Sarah Shahi should be number 1

I don't mind Damien Lewis , but he always kinda looks like he's doing "Face Kegels".

Took ya long enough. Where's the old Mercury Slim?

Heather Locklear is a major oversight.

And the chick with the huge cans in Police Academy

Can't believe you left Christopher Meloni off this list.

Also, I know this is US-focused, but Philip Glenister who plays Detective Gene Hunt on the original Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

wojohowitz from barney miller turned me gay as a kid.
as did angie dickenson in police woman. but in a different way.

Who put this list together, Stevie Wonder?

I call bullshit. Steele was not a cop but a PI. If you open that door then where are Jacklyn Smith, Farrah, Rockford and Magnum? Therefore we MUST substitute Locklear in TJ Hooker for Remington Steele.

This list is pretty sad. Not very hot all the way up to #5. Must put thinking cap on to improve the list. Michael Douglas? Don Johnson? David Soul? Angie Dickinson? Andy Griffith?

If we are gonna put on Locklear then I'll be GODDAMNED if Shatner and Zmed aren't aren't included as part of the package.

Seth "Hot Pants Hotter 'Stache" Bullock.

Seconding Gene Hunt, Paddydog. Mrow! I'd feed him his 'oops for dinner any day.

And since we're on Mars, John Simm as Sam Tyler. Especially when handcuffed naked to a bed.

Jimmy Smits as Bobby Simone in NYPD Blue. OK, we had to put up with a year of Caruso first, but the wait was so worth it!

Daniel J Travanti in Hill Street Blues. A slow-burner, but you know what they say about banked fires....

Yeah, what tamatha and pq said. Remington Steele is not a cop.

And wow. Sarah Shahi deserves just to be on the hottest list. Forget TV cops.

I know it was just canceled, but isn't Gretchen Mol a cop on Life On Mars? She's much hotter than most of the women on this list.

Two egregious omissions from this list:

Lt. Jim Dangle

Deputy Travis Junior

I don't know about this list. Seems a bit bland, really (besides Sarah Shahi, who is tres hot, and the obligatory Depp). Where's Todd Williams from In Plain Sight?

I'm glad to see "Life" gettin' some play here these days, especially when it extols the beauty of Ms. Shahi. "Life" will score again next week when they introduce Gabrielle Union as Charlie Crews' new temporary partner.

Honorable mentions:

Kim Delaney - NYPD Blue
Mitzi Kapture - Silk Stalkings
Roselyn Sanchez - Without A Trace
Gretchen Mol - Life on Mars
Maggie Lawson - Psych

Should Never Be Mentioned

Abe Vigoda - Barney Miller/Fish
Tyne Daly - Cagney & Lacey
Jack Webb - Dragnet
Peter Falk - Columbo

Great list Rowles, but there is something about the list I just can’t quite put my finger on.

Fuuuuuuck...I forgot to download yesterday's episode of Life. I want a 3some with those 2. I don't even like gingertops normally, but Damien Lewis makes me want to eat my carrots. Ok, that sounded dirtier than I intended, but I'll keep it.

What's the name of the 2 hot dudes on "Saving Grace". Uh...I second the hate for Kyra Sedgwick. I can't help it, the woman annoys the ever-loving shit out of me.

Did anyone tell that numb-nut Rowles that Remington Steele was not a cop, he was a con man pretending to be a detective.

Yeah, Remington Steele really doesn't belong there. He's a fake PI / spy.

Anyone hating on Kyra Sedgwick has never watched the show. She doesn't look that hot in pics, but she has INSANE chemistry with men. Look at them - a room full of dudes with hard-ons just because she's around.

Submitted: The women of Third Watch - Molly Price and utterly sexy, utterly bad-ass Tia Texada.

Christopher Meloni not on list. List useless for this reason.

That man has started to haunt my dreams.

mcnulty. and carver. and kima.

Milena Govich - Law and Order

Thanks for picking Damien Lewis. Glad I'm not the only one with a ginger fetish.

Two words:

McNutty & Stabler

Where the hell is Ian Tracey from Da Vinci's Inquest? Hotter than hot!

Holly Hunter people! She is 47, hot and foul-mouthed, and my hero. The woman has been buck naked on the show (Saving Grace)and she looks fantastic.

Mariska Hargatay is stunning.

Kyle Secor and Jon Seda on Homicide.

And I do admit to having developed a serious crush on Damien Lewis.

L&O: UK is surprisingly good. Although they went doink-doink heavy in their first episode.

aaaaaaarrrrrrOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo

*radio static*

Calling all cars, calling all cars, be on the lookout for an escaped mental patient with delusions that Kyra Sedgewick and Kathryn Morris are hot. Subject is armed with a Ryan Reynolds fixation and should be considered extremely dangerous. Last seen heading for SWSX.

Shoot to kill. Repeat: Shoot to kill.
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Chris Cagney would kick their asses and look great doing it.

* And that's how, bearing a $6 tub of popcorn, a $5 Coke and my 3-D glasses and Pajibattitude, I wound up at the SwissEx Fiberglass Casting Cutter trade show table at the convention center by mistake. ("SwissEx sets a new standard for professional cast removal" -- I can think of some movies that would have benefitted from "professional cast removal," but I didn't have the $25,000.)

Anyway, I meant SXSW, obviously, though, amazingly, SWSX turns up 21,300 times on Google and most of the time means the same thing.

(And check out all the commas in that sentence, figgy!)

buc, those are some very, very sexy commas. Mmmhmm.

What if Meloni had looked like Sven on Law & Order though, huh?

You'd be goin for it then!

You have totally under-rated Mariska and totally over-rated Johnny Depp. You may have mildly under-rated Kyra Sedgwick, but her phony accent in The Closer counts against her.

You got Benjamin Bratt about right.

Forty-fifth person to agree that Remington Steele, while SMOKIN' hot, was NOT a cop, or even a real detective. He was a SMOKIN' hot con man.

SETH BULLOCK, COCKSUCKERS!! Good god, humping Alma Garrett HARD above the Deadwooders eating breakfast??? HOLY CRAP!!!! Give ME some o' that!!!

No love for the members of CTU? Jack Bauer, Tony Almeida, Chloe, Michelle? Come on!!

I disagree with Jeremy Sisto...dude, he's Billy, still trying to hump his sister, Brenda Chenowith. Just...no.

DAVID BOREANZ??????

dammitjanet,

sadly, Boreanaz doesn't count, because Seeley Booth is FBI. That's also why I left Rob Morrow from Numb3rs off my personal list. Cute, but outside the parameters.

Pookie,

you want hot black cops? Well, duh - Super Black Sex Cop from Six Feet Under! Yowsa!
(And he was a bottom... if that helps..)
Honorable mention, Henry Simmons from NYPD Blue. A wooden actor, but very very pretty.

DammitJanet, there's a perfectly rational explaination for why CTU wasn't included on the list...they'd be the list, it'd be more than 10, and Jack Bauer would fill the first 10 slots of the list.

Tarn, only after I posted my post did I remember the good looking gay cop from "Six Feet Under." But knowing Rowles so well, I half expected him to place the gay cop on his list just to break balls.

Tarn Holy crap, how could I forget Keith? "Big Black Sex Cop" as Claire called him.... MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!! Loverly......

Mike R. HELL YES!!!!!

YES!
what about meloni?

You forgot the chick from Silk Stalkings. I tend to keep my fanboyage in check, but that was one hell of a hottie, and the show skirting soft-core territory didn't hurt.